[Python-Dev] cpython: Rename contextlib.ignored() to contextlib.ignore().

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 Oct 2013 08:54, "Barry Warsaw" <barry at python.org> wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 2013, at 03:27 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> >The module maintainer (Nick) approved the name change from his original
> >preference for ignored().  That should had been the end of it.
>
> As a general plea, please be sure to record the rationale and decisions
in the
> appropriate place, such as the tracker and/or commit message.  I think
it's
> fine for such minor decisions to be made in high bandwidth forums such as
IRC,
> it's also incumbent on the participants to be mindful of the larger
community
> of core developers and users.  Not doing so makes our process less
> transparent, puts legitimacy at risk, and alienates users and developers
who
> may not be privileged to those out-of-band discussions.

Agreed, although in this case there wasn't much additional rationale beyond
"Raymond and I decided we preferred the shorter spelling, so we changed it"
:)

I figured it was a minor enough change that the commit message was adequate
documentation, but I acknowledge it would have been better to create a new
issue with its own NEWS entry to more explicitly track the change.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
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